Archie Green (1917-2009) was a sixty-year member of the Shipwrights Union, a retired professor of folklore and English at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of numerous books on labor lore, language, music, and art. He was also a driving force behind passage of the American Folklife Preservation Act of 1976.
[This book] is a best-of-Archie Green collection, which makes this
book the best from one of the most influential folklorists of the
last half-century. ("Austin American-Statesman")
�This book� is a best-of-Archie Green collection, which makes this
book the best from one of the most influential folklorists of the
last half-century. ("Austin American-Statesman")
Few folklorists have so keenly observed such changes and shifts or
articulated their significance as well and as variously as Archie
Green has in this collection and in his life's work. ("Journal of
Folklore Research")
When next someone asks me 'What is a folklorist?', I will tell them
to read "Torching the Fink Books" by Archie Green. (Peggy A.
Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center, Library of
Congress)
Archie Green's work unites a critical and political stance with a
deeply humane ability to celebrate the dignity of people, their
communities, and their forms of expression. (Burt Feintuch,
University of New Hampshire)
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